Bloomin' Onion

[Alice Faber]

What can I say? Great minds think alike.

Dennis R. Preston said:
>>whut ah sed.
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>dInIs
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>>Arnold Zwicky said:
>>>there was mention, a few days ago, of a dispute between
>>>Outback and Chili's over the use of this name.  Chili's has
>>>gone for the name Awesome Blossom, which i prefer on poetic
>>>grounds (though its failure to refer clearly to onions might
>>>be viewed as a point against it).
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>>It's a little less poetic for thems of us for whom COT and CAUGHT aren't
>>homophonous. I actually had to explain that name to my sister (a
>>non-linguist, though she'd count as a talented amateur).

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